Originally Posted by
Not_a_boffin
That'll be the entire German armed forces, not their army. And from memory also includes their equivalent of DE&S.
True, they're over 260k already if you include their civilian contingent. Their total SP figures are roughly the same as ours at c185k but the point is they are expanding, we are not. I'm lead to believe there are people hanging out to join the British forces but are failed by the recruiting system, while at the other end people are hanging out to get out because the offer is getting worse and worse, which is playing to the MOD plan of downsizing through natural wastage.